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The Merchants Loft Pump Street Brixham TQ5 8ED

P/2022/1201Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 February 2023

Council decision: Permission With Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of 1st floor office and 2nd floor loft to form 2-bed residential accommodation. Change of use of ground floor to commercial/retail space. (resubmission of refused application P/2020/1310).

Received
1 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
St Peters With St Marys
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Merchants Loft Pump Street Brixham TQ5 8ED. Torbay has handled 2,035 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Brixham Town conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across St Peters With St Marys. We hold 769 applications in total for the TQ5 postcode area.

83% of full applications at Torbay Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TQ5 8ED
Application type
Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 November 2022
Consultation expiry
23 November 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Fao Mr Jonathan Ling-Cottey 52 Fore Street Brixham TQ5 8DZ

Publicity

Last advertised
23 November 2022
Site notice start
23 November 2022

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Brixham Town
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1, Paradise PlaceOn or next to this site
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Associated applications

  1. 2022
    1 Nov

    Change of use of 1st floor office and 2nd floor loft to form 2-bed residential accommodation. Change of use…

    This applicationApprovedFullP/2022/1201
  2. 2020
    23 Dec

    Change of use of existing 1st floor office and 2nd floor loft to form 2-bed residential accommodation. Change…

    RefusedPlanning ApplicationPart ofP/2020/1310

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